Enter the Warzone, better than a poke in the eye with a flaming stick.
When we attended UC Davis in the late 1980s and early '90s, the Aggies played football in a track stadium with rickety wooden bleachers against teams like Chico State, Cal Poly and Cal State Northridge.
None of the Davis players were on scholarship, and the marching band took pride in being out of formation.
By the time Saturday's season opener at Bulldog Stadium hits the fourth quarter, Aggie Pride could be sorely tested.
Of course, UC Davis did upset Stanford 20-17 in 2005 at Stanford Stadium on a touchdown pass with 8 seconds left.
So anything's possible.
Our completely unscientific, unsolicited Bowl Championship Series predictions:
Orange: Georgia Tech vs. Rutgers
Sugar: Mississippi vs. Oklahoma
Fiesta: USC vs. Boise State
Rose: Cal vs. Ohio State
Championship game: Florida vs. Texas
Week 1 shocker: Nevada over Notre Dame. (By Saturday night, the rest of the country knows about Colin Kaepernick.)
Florida sent a "cease and desist" letter to a minor-league baseball team planning a "What Would Tim Tebow Do?" promotion.
The NCAA always takes a dim view of anyone who profits from college athletes -- except the NCAA, of course.
Among the new college football rules is one that allows conferences to impose further penalties on players who use their helmets to make dangerous hits.
Good thing Kendall Edwards no longer plays for the Bulldogs. The WAC would've banished him to Siberia.
Jack Jarvis, a long-suffering Detroit Lions fan from Fresno, was psyched Saturday to see rookie linebacker (and Clovis High product) Zack Follett light someone up on special teams.
Bet Follett is still steamed about being a seventh-round pick.
Before buying into Atlanta Falcons hype, consider they've never produced back-to-back winning seasons in their 43-year history.
For no particular reason: Chance Kretschmer.
Downplaying reports that his presence has caused a "schism" in the Minnesota Vikings locker room, Brett Favre quipped he didn't know what the word meant.
In that case, he's also a megalomaniac with narcissistic tendencies.
"The Original Whizzinator" made infamous by ex-Vikings running back Onterrio Smith fetched $750 at a Minnesota auction house.
That information wasn't supposed to get out, but it leaked.
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